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But I do not mean, said Mr. Allen, to decry all small books; many of the greatest works in literature are short, but the epitomes of larger books of information are to be avoided. Reading these short volumes produces an impression of erudition but it is superficial and does not...
We are glad to hear from the class day committee on the subject of the cap and gown. It cannot be objected that the matter has not received careful enough attention for the committee have certainly been deliberate in awarding the contract. The report answers very satisfactorily a question which...
Of the poetry of the number, "Verses," by P. H. Savage, is the best. It is simply written, and its metrical qualities are decidedly better than anything by the same author that we remember to have seen before. "The Amber-witch" is not up to Mr. Moody's usual standard...
Of these four stories "Dross," and "The Prize that Teddy Won," are quite readable. In fact, "Dross" is fairly vigorous, strong, and decidedly well worked up, though one cannot help feeling that the allusion to the fact that "people in poor districts are not troubled with sensitive nostrils" is in...
In Sever 11, this evening Mr. Montague Chamberlain will speak on "The Songbirds of New England." There seems to be a current impression that we have no song-birds worthy of notice in the United States and Mr. Chamberlain will devote himself to disproving this. He has made a careful...